Bug#433876: xserver-xorg-video-ati: brightness buttons don't work on compaq nc6000
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:42:25AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> John Wright wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> > Version: 1:6.6.3-2
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > I have a compaq nc6000 laptop, and the brightness buttons don't work if
> > I use x.org's ati driver. They do work with fglrx, and they used to
> > work with the free ati driver in sarge.
>
> Assuming you upgraded from sarge to etch, it's actually hard to be sure
> what is causing this problem. There are lots of components involved when
> pressing such a special button, at least the kernel, X server are
> involved too, all of them got a major upgrade between sarge and etch.
> Upstream has some bugs like yours, for instance
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8362, without any reply
> unfortunately.
Yes, that looks suspiciously like my problem, except I didn't have the
switch issue.
> Since it works with fglrx, I am going to keep the bug assigned to the
> ati driver for now. Does it help if you upgrade to
> xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.6.192 currently in experimental?
Yes! That did the trick. Thanks! Should I mark this bug as fixed in
version 6.6.192-1?
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John Wright
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